Mary Matheson

Mary Matheson, is an award-winning immersive director, creator and executive producer. She is course director of Royal Holloway, University of London’s MA in Immersive Storytelling. She mixes the latest technology (mobile, augmented and virtual reality), along with intimate documentary techniques to bring the audience into the heart of the narrative. She directed the ground-breaking GoogleVR 360 documentary series The Female Planet and was lead director for the recently-released ten-part 360 New Realities series. She is currently co-directing an interactive VR experience about underground clubs where London’s Black community sought refuge (and partied) during the violence and racism in 1980s Britain.